Apparatus



Feb. 5, 1929.

J., BECKER STANDPIPE APPARATUS Y Filed July 6, 1925 ATTORNEYS,

Patente! Feb. 5, 19291 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

COMPANY, F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, A4 CORPORATION VANIA.

OF PENNSYL- smnimrrrn Arrmrus. f

Application med July 8, 1926. Serial No. 120,825.

Y My invention relates to means for cooling ascension or standpipe apparatus of the general character exemplified in the patent to van Ackeren 1,581,556, granted April 20,

1926, and is of particular im ortance in removln the hot gases of distil ation from the tops o coking ovens, such for instance, as that disclosed in the patent to Becker 1,374,546, granted April 12, 1921.

Stand ipes of the character indicated are ordinari y made of cast iron and are often provided with a refractory lining to protect them from the intense heat of the gases taken oli' through them. These linin s, however, l5 frequently become broken, due, or instance,

to the difference in their expansion and that of the ipes with variations in temperature and to the operation of scrubbin to remove carbon deposits. Standpipes wit out linings 2o are used extensively but they burn out within a rather short time, making the continuous replacement very costly. Other means such as a water jacket integral with the standpipe have been employed to cool the same and thereby prevent injury thereto by the hot ases, but this in turn has proved unsatisactor because when the water flow is interrupte and a ain resumed, as is often necessary, the crac ing of the hot standpipe frequently results.

By my invention all of these disadvanta es are overcome and theadvantages attainedt at refractory linings are dispensed with, thus facilitating the scrubbing operation; the

regions adjacent the standpipes are protected against the excessive heat of the gases, thus protecting the workmen and facilitating the o ration of the ovens; the liability of the pipes to crack is materially reduced and their use may be continued even if they are cracked, thus greatly prolonging the useful life of the pipes; the excessive heat of the gases is re duced and the heat energyv removed therefrom may be conserved for useful purposes.

These results I attain by surrounding the cast iron standpipe with a shell or jacket, separate and distinct therefrom, and referably made of sheet steel. The interna diameter of the jacket is made somewhat greater 50 than the external diameter of the ascension or standpipe and the intervening space is preferably filled with metal filings, such for 1nstance as iron filings, or other heat conductingl material which will adapt itself t0 the intervening space and expand or contract 1n response to pressure of the walls 'of the pipe and jacket with variations in tempera ture to at all times preserve a conductive ath bridging said walls for the flow of heat om the pipe outwardly. In case the ascension pipe should become cracked the escape of gases will be revented by the surrounding iacket and pac ing.

The jacket is provided with an inlet orifice for the introduction of a cooling medium which may conveniently be water or ammonia liquor, electively. The jacket is also provided withv an outlet orifice. From the latter the liquid used to cool the gases may be taken olf as such and conveyed either to a trough from which it may then be returned yto the system, first passing, if desired, through a heat recovering or extracting device; or it may be conveyed to a spray device for Hushing the gas otake controlling devices, such as the pipes and valves leading into the gas main. Or, again, the cooling liquid may be retained in the jacket until it is converted into steam and then taken off to do useful work.

My invention further consists in such other new and useful improvements, and has for further objects such other operative advantages or results as may be found to obtain in the structures and devices hereinafter described or claimed.

In the accompan ing drawings, formin a part of this speci cation and showing or purposes of exemplication a preferred form and manner in 'which the invention may be embodied and practiced, but without limitin the claimed invention specifically to suc illustrative instance or instances:

The figure is a vertical sectional view of a standoipe provided with my improvements for effecting the cooling of the same.

In' the illustrated embodiment of the invention there is shown a fragment of a coking chamber 11 provided in the top 12 with a gas outlet 13 through which discharge the gases loo r'exn the iletion of the coal. The coking J'ienher il may he one of a battery of similar mbers, for example, as set forth in my ior patent hereinbefore mentioned. The

of distillation will ascend through the riser or stand pipe .i6 and from thence will pass through the downeoxne' pipe 2l, the valve 26 being' open7 to the nmln 14. These'liot scharge outlet 13 of each coking chamber gases would normally tend to destroy the loW- o 'CL 'is equipped with a standpipe apparatus, er pipe section 17. However, by my invenme the standpipes 0f the several coiing tionlelect a cooling of saidpipesectionssuif zambers are connected with and discharge Acient to maintain it at a safe temperature by i Common collecting main 14 which eX ei'noving therefrom the excess heat by con 5CH-dS al I one side of the hatten. duction through the filings 70 in Contact 7 *'lnlm "ripe, eopnrzitus inclu( il l' ,L therewith and the metal jacket 40 in heat iireferably, of :l lower conducting relation to said through CS lf mOllnP/d dlBCtly which jacket normally mai 'ein the flow of. mi from which the l may' eleetmelj;K

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or tlm like, in combination: a stantlpipe; a liollow jacket exterior to and adjaeent Suid stnndpipe for receiving a cooling medium, :unl heatl conducting material between Said standpipe and jacket.

8. In standpipe apparatus for coke ovens, or the like, in Combination: a stamlpipe; :i jacket exterior to and adjacent Said standpipe,

and heut conducting material between said standpipe and jacket.

9. The combination as defined in claim 1, in Whieh a space is provided between the jacket and the standpipe.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

JOSEPH BECKER. 

